Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"The danger, of course, is that the big, powerful groups that throw their weight around here would try to co-opt that process so that it once again became the Wall Street and Big Polluter Free Ride Act..."

"the budget process has become meaningless, and I am sick of it."

"I think I share your frustration with the process that I think we probably all on this Committee feel."

"Republican concern about the debt and the deficit seems to vary considerably depending on the program at issue."